People, Culture & Learning for Schools
Herk Consulting designs development programmes for educators, teacher leaders and school leaders, with learning grounded in the realities of school life.
Schools and education institutions depend on people. Educators need to work well with colleagues, develop others, build trust, communicate across different roles and respond to learners with different needs.
Develop People
Help educators grow as leaders and colleagues.
- Coaching Conversations
- New & Emerging Leader Development
- Feedback & Difficult Conversations
- Delegation & Accountability
- Communicating with Influence
Strengthen Culture
Build trust and team behaviours that make it easier for people to contribute, learn and work well together.
- Psychological Safety & Trust
- Team Culture & Ways of Working
- Conflict Navigation
- Leading People Through Change
- Better Meetings & Team Conversations
Design Learning
Design for learner variability and help educators facilitate better professional learning.
- Inclusive Learning by Design
- Learner Variability
- Inclusive Communication & Accessibility
- Designing & Facilitating Adult Learning
Work With Stakeholders
Support educators and leaders who need to work across roles, engage parents and partners, and navigate different expectations.
- Stakeholder Influence & Alignment
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Communication Across Stakeholder Groups
- Conflict Navigation
- Partnership Working
Why Herk Consulting for schools?
- Adult learning expertiseProgrammes are designed around how adults learn, not only around what content needs to be covered. Herk is an ACLP-certified Adult Educator and teaches in higher and adult education settings.
- Leadership experienceHerk brings senior organisational leadership experience across public and social-sector organisations, including SG Enable, NCSS and the Singapore International Foundation.
- UDL and inclusion expertiseHerk is a CAST Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Credentialed Educator, having completed all three CAST UDL Credentials: Mindset, Analysis and Application. His work also includes disability inclusion, accessibility and inclusive communication.
- School-specific contextualisationSchool programmes are designed around the participant group, programme objectives and situations educators are likely to encounter, rather than using generic corporate examples.
Experience in education
Direct Herk Consulting engagements include Nanyang Primary School, New Town Primary School, Yuhua Primary School, Ngee Ann Polytechnic, the Singapore Institute of Management and the Singapore University of Social Sciences.
Herk has also facilitated programmes for MOE Planning Division through Workplace Asia, and for principals and the Cluster Superintendent of an MOE school cluster through Korn Ferry.